Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 15
A sundial does not work on a cloudy day or at night, because there is no shadow.
Who acts: sundial, shadow · What happens: not work, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, shadows and sundials» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sundial, shadow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sundial | det |
| 2 | sundial | sundial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 work | advmod |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 night | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 is | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 shadow | det |
| 18 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | present · do-support | a sundial | day | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no shadow | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:15.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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